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Rot26 🇺🇸🤝🇺🇦

@rot26.wtf
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Infosec. Professor. Studies Conflict, Cyber, and Influence Operations. Also, Emergency Management, Community Resilience and Weather. Optimist. Christian, but not a jerk about it. Fella from way back. Brain Damage Haver. Tries to be a helper. He/Him

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Rot26 🇺🇸🤝🇺🇦 @rot26.wtf · 27/09/2026
I don’t have a problem with consenting adults going to whatever parties they want, but if participation in these parties is even remotely tied to career progression, even if it just gives that impression, there’s nothing consensual about it.
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Rot26 🇺🇸🤝🇺🇦 @rot26.wtf · 27/09/2026
“Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears… I come to bury Caesar… seriously, FUCK THAT GUY.”
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Rot26 🇺🇸🤝🇺🇦 @rot26.wtf · 27/09/2026
Friendly reminder that in arguably the most libertarian state in the union these assholes are widely despised by everyone… www.wbur.org/news/2026/09...
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N.H. Libertarian Party endorses ‘assassination’ of elected Democrats
In a post Tuesday on X, the party’s account wrote: “We openly support the assassination of basically every elected Democrat in New Hampshire.” The state Libertarian Party lost its national affiliation...
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Rot26 🇺🇸🤝🇺🇦 @rot26.wtf · 27/09/2026
This is a dumb, ahistoric take that picks and chooses a few random facts, separates them from any context, strips the Russians of any agency, and gives cover to a monster who’s directly benefiting from this framing.
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Rot26 🇺🇸🤝🇺🇦 @rot26.wtf · 27/09/2026
Friendly reminder that they’re all FrEe SpEeCh AbSoLuTisTs
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Rot26 🇺🇸🤝🇺🇦 @rot26.wtf · 27/09/2026
I had something funny yet insightful to say, but I can’t for the life of me remember what the hell it was… anyways… gnite all. Things aren’t good, but we can keep trying to make them better.
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Rot26 🇺🇸🤝🇺🇦 @rot26.wtf · 27/09/2026
When I was in community college, I used to grab a bite between classes, and I would sit near where the Philosophy 100 students would be getting ready for class... Some of them had some pretty dumb ideas, which is fine, they're community college students, but this is *WAY* worse than any of that.
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Katie Martin @katie0martin.ft.com · 25/09/2026
I have blamed The agents That hacked Your website And which You probably Reasonably thought I controlled Forgive me I am rich And unaccustomed To taking responsibility
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Rot26 🇺🇸🤝🇺🇦 @rot26.wtf · 26/09/2026
I feel like if these were fraudsters who had set up these accounts, the MAIN FUCKING THING WE WOULD HAVE FUCKING SEEN IS SOME KIND OF ACTUAL FUCKING FRAUD TAKING PLACE.
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Rot26 🇺🇸🤝🇺🇦 @rot26.wtf · 26/09/2026
Film you've watched more than six times with a GIF
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Sean Connery: One Ping Only Please
Alt: Sean Connery: One Ping Only Please
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Rot26 🇺🇸🤝🇺🇦 @rot26.wtf · 26/09/2026
Imagine talking to an otherwise extremely qualified person, who's a great fit, and being like "Nope, they brought dunkies.. F them."
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Will Ferrell Says "That's Dumb"
Alt: Will Ferrell Says "That's Dumb"
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Rot26 🇺🇸🤝🇺🇦 @rot26.wtf · 26/09/2026
During my last job search, I brought a cup of Brazil Daterra Farms Peaberry that I brewed with a hario pour over dripper to to my last (and most comfortable) job interview. 10/10 would recommend.
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Rot26 🇺🇸🤝🇺🇦 @rot26.wtf · 26/09/2026
Hell yeah.
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Saher @saffronsec.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Excited to publish my first @bindinghook.bsky.social piece on challenging assumptions of how Iranian cyber ops function in wartime & the discrepancy between capability/intent signals from peacetime. What does the evidence say on how cyber/kinetic interact in conflict? bindinghook.com/what-does-th...
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What does the Iran war tell us about the relationship between cyber and kinetic conflict?
The predicted wave of Iranian cyber retaliation never came
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Rot26 🇺🇸🤝🇺🇦 @rot26.wtf · 22/09/2026
Context: rec league youth soccer
Pouring one out for people who don't know how to shut the fuck up
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Phil Hagen @philhagen.com · 20/09/2026
Just facts. As we’ve known all along, datacenters do not create jobs.
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Rot26 🇺🇸🤝🇺🇦 @rot26.wtf · 20/09/2026
I actually think what he’s doing here is trying to create the rationale to build it without approval for national security reasons, it just sounds absurd because he’s a moron who thinks the word sniper in this context carries a lot more weight than it does.
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Rot26 🇺🇸🤝🇺🇦 @rot26.wtf · 20/09/2026
The United States Military dramatically walked into the briefing room and said “Mr President, we need a storage room… and it has to be in the shape of a Trimphal Arch.” “Why?” the president asked “For National Security purposes” the United States Military responded.
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Rot26 🇺🇸🤝🇺🇦 @rot26.wtf · 19/09/2026
These people are so fucking weird. Like, Hegseth is fuckin WEIRD man.
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Rot26 🇺🇸🤝🇺🇦 @rot26.wtf · 19/09/2026
One thing that I've learned over the years when you start a new position in security, particularly a leadership role like CISO, is to watch, learn, take notes. Look for the raw materials, look for the gaps, and talk to everyone. Listen to the grips, listen to the brags, the BS, listen to it all.
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Rot26 🇺🇸🤝🇺🇦 @rot26.wtf · 19/09/2026
Maestro in a Symphony of Destruction is my newest rap album...
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Rot26 🇺🇸🤝🇺🇦 @rot26.wtf · 19/09/2026
I'm watching this netflix show on AI and all I can think of is these people who are described as some of the most intelligent people on the planet, don't know how anything works outside of their weird letter guessing machine.
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Rot26 🇺🇸🤝🇺🇦 @rot26.wtf · 18/09/2026
I was talking to a CEO about this the other day, he was worried about AGI/Super Intelligence issues, and I was worried about people mistaking an LLM for intelligent and accidentally putting it in charge of something that matters.
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Dave Karpf @davekarpf.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
This is the type of AI disaster scenario that I ACTUALLY worry about. (1) AI industry oversells the capabilities of its products to score fat government contracts. (2) govt puts the AI in charge of critical shit. (3) AI fucks up, because it has a nonzero error rate. (4) shit, now we’re at war.
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Rot26 🇺🇸🤝🇺🇦 @rot26.wtf · 16/09/2026
The thing investors are generally looking for in an IPO is "it's not impossible."
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@egyp7 @egyp7.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
My concern is not that AI will become so superduper that it decides to kill all humans. My concern is that the existing humans with all the power and money will use AI to continue making the world worse for everyone.
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Rot26 🇺🇸🤝🇺🇦 @rot26.wtf · 15/09/2026
Nothing like having your AirPods disconnect and flooding the entire finance dept with early 90s hyper local Bay Area rap at full blast.
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Rot26 🇺🇸🤝🇺🇦 @rot26.wtf · 12/09/2026
I’m 100% going to have to vote between two candidates that aren’t great, but one is absolutely worse than the other. Only way out of this mess is through it…
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Rot26 🇺🇸🤝🇺🇦 @rot26.wtf · 12/09/2026
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Michael Che: I Mean, Not Good
Alt: Michael Che: I Mean, Not Good
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Rot26 🇺🇸🤝🇺🇦 @rot26.wtf · 06/09/2026
<Me, an account with under 1000 followers who hasn't posted more than a few times in the last week> WHY THE HELL AM I NOT ON THE LIST?!?!?!!!
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Rot26 🇺🇸🤝🇺🇦 @rot26.wtf · 02/09/2026
My god…
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Rot26 🇺🇸🤝🇺🇦 @rot26.wtf · 30/08/2026
Feels strange finishing a job on a Friday and starting a new one on Monday. Excited for what comes next!
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Hobbit Adventure: I'm Going On An Adventure!
Alt: Hobbit Adventure: I'm Going On An Adventure!
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Rot26 🇺🇸🤝🇺🇦 @rot26.wtf · 30/08/2026
A thing that I think a lot of people forget is that until the republicans started a moral panic about bathrooms, and then those Manhattan Institute nerds turned it up to 11 explicitly for political reasons, most cis-het people didn’t think about, or broadly give a shit about this.
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Rot26 🇺🇸🤝🇺🇦 @rot26.wtf · 29/08/2026
Oh no
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Rot26 🇺🇸🤝🇺🇦 @rot26.wtf · 29/08/2026
If the claim is that state sponsored disaster relief or humanitarian aid is iMpErIaLisM, then I think the term has been applied so broadly that it doesn’t mean anything useful anymore. It’s just statecraft. You’re describing statecraft.
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assigned cromulent at birth @cleanwindows.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
"USAID did a lot of good, its destruction is permitting lots of objectively bad things to happen at scale, but I maintain that its existence was fundamentally bad because it could never be pure enough boogedy boogedy imperialism" just outs you as a fucking mark
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post malone ergo propter malone @proptermalone.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
also like i keep banging on about this but what USAID was doing was in many cases the first-dollar interventions, done at scale-- literally the best possible conversion rate from American resources into human welfare. there isn't another set of interventions that are just as good
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Rot26 🇺🇸🤝🇺🇦 @rot26.wtf · 29/08/2026
If you see this, post your getaway vehicle.
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The A Team Van Driving and Skidding
Alt: The A Team Van Driving and Skidding
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Rot26 🇺🇸🤝🇺🇦 @rot26.wtf · 28/08/2026
Yinz right.
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Rot26 🇺🇸🤝🇺🇦 @rot26.wtf · 28/08/2026
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Larry David: Nobody Gives a F*ck
Alt: Larry David: Nobody Gives a F*ck
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Rot26 🇺🇸🤝🇺🇦 @rot26.wtf · 27/08/2026
Friendly reminder most dems, including in dems in Maine, can’t stand this guy, which is why he’s stepping down.🤷‍♂️
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Rot26 🇺🇸🤝🇺🇦 @rot26.wtf · 27/08/2026
TFW you’re getting ready to start your first in-office job in 4 years…
The ICP Magnets meme saying: BUSINESS CASUAL
HOW DOES IT WORK
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Rot26 🇺🇸🤝🇺🇦 @rot26.wtf · 27/08/2026
Impotence... pure political impotence.
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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Everything is awful, except for this, which is the exact opposite m.youtube.com/watch?v=o2Xc...
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Harris, Parton, Ronstadt on Late Show, March 24, 1999 (full, stereo)
YouTube video by Don Giller
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Rot26 🇺🇸🤝🇺🇦 @rot26.wtf · 26/08/2026
Craig strikes me as the kind of person who thinks the humanities are stupid, while at the same time, having wildly incorrect, but strong feelings about history, sociology, and cultural geography.
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Rot26 🇺🇸🤝🇺🇦 @rot26.wtf · 26/08/2026
Dolly Parton was not neutral in the culture wars….
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Jonathon M. Floyd @jfloyd314.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Much of the political elite already considers it rude to bring up someone's *active* support for Trump.
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Rot26 🇺🇸🤝🇺🇦 @rot26.wtf · 25/08/2026
Just over here listening to coat of many colors, and trying not to cry, just like the rest of you wonderful people.
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Jill Lightner @jilllightner.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Street art in her honor from SE Seattle
A glittery tinsel-fringed illustrated portrait of Dolly Parton on a telephone pole. There's a cartoon voice bubble with a quote from her that says "find out who you are and do it on purpose."
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Rot26 🇺🇸🤝🇺🇦 @rot26.wtf · 25/08/2026
The thing is, I think she's right that getting kids in elementary school to learn how to build stuff, I've been teaching my kids age appropriate wood working, household repair, etc.
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